Bill O’Brien stood inside Penn State’s Lasch Football Building on Saturday, a floor below the program’s most recent postseason trophies, and told reporters he wasn’t at all surprised by the Nittany Lions’ success.
After all, Penn State’s former head coach said, it’s hard to keep “college football heaven” down.
“This place is a place where kids should really want to come and play football,” he said in his first trip back to campus since officially leaving for the NFL’s Houston Texans in January 2014. “Like I said, it’s like college football heaven. You come in here and you watch a game in front of 108,000 fans.